Telling Oprah She Couldn't Afford Our Bag (Because She's Black) is Not Racism! - Shop Owner

After  U.S. talk show host and world's Most powerful celebrity Winfrey, 59, who runs her own TV network, that earned $77 million in the year to June 2013,  was racially addressed (The broadcaster said in two U.S. interviews that a sales assistant had refused to show her the crocodile handbag, saying it was “too expensive” and steering her towards other, cheaper ones) while in Switzerland for the wedding of singer  last month. Luxury shop Trois Pommes denied discriminating against Winfrey, an African-American, who asked to look at a “Jennifer” purse, designed by Tom Ford and named for actress Jennifer Aniston.

In the owner Trudie Goetz's words on Reuters, “This is an absolute classic misunderstanding... This has nothing to do with racism, I am here for everyone and the customer is king.... The sales assistant had wanted to show Winfrey that the bag was also available in other materials, which may have given the TV host the impression the shop did not want to sell it to her...Of course that’s not the case. Who wouldn’t want to sell a purse for 35,000 francs?”